Abuja technology village: Barren six years after conception

Check this triangle: Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood. The oldest of the triumvirate, Hollywood, is in the United States of America and from it India and Nigeria adapted the Bollywood and Nollywood respectively. The three are doing well and well known all over the world, especially in movie circles and are making money for different stakeholders. […]

Patience Jonathan opens up on rift with Amaechi

Contrary to her earlier denials of involvement in the political crisis rocking Rivers State, wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, on Wednesday opened up on the matter. She told 16 bishops from the South-South, who visited her at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, that her misunderstanding with Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, started about four years […]

Nelson Mandela spends 95th birthday in hospital

Nelson Mandela is spending his 95th birthday in hospital in Pretoria, as events take place around the world and in South Africa in his honour. South Africans are being urged to mark the former president and anti-apartheid leader’s 67 years of public service with 67 minutes of charitable acts. Mr Mandela, who is in critical […]

Rivers crisis: Protesters hold Amaechi, 4 govs hostage

As Lamido, Kwakwanso, Aliyu, Nyako call for redeployment of CP From CHRIS ANUCHA and TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt Protesters yesterday held Rivers State Governor, Hon Chibuike Amaechi and four visiting governors hostage at the Port Harcourt International Airport. The governors holed in at the airport, with Amaechi, are Alhaji Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Alhaji Rabiu Musa […]

2015: My fears for Nigeria–Itse Sagay

To many, the crisis currently rocking Rivers State is enough to derail the nation’s democracy. Analysts argue that all the parties to the conflict should apply caution to prevent it fron snowballing into a state of lawlessness. In this interview with WILLY EYA, a public affairs commentator and renowned lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), reflects […]

UN may sanction Nigeria for al-Bashir’s visit

NIGERIA may be sanctioned by the United Nations for the visit of the Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, to the country The International Criminal Court, The Hague, said on Tuesday, that it might report Nigeria to the UN Security Council for possible sanction over its failure to arrest al-Bashir, during his visit to the country. This […]

Patience Jonathan blames elders for fuelling Rivers crisis

Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Monday faulted the contributions of some unnamed persons she referred to as “otherwise respected elders” who, by their views, had been contributing to the crisis in Rivers State. While describing their utterances as unfortunate, she called on all feuding parties in the state to sheathe their swords […]

Nigerian jet for Malawian President

WHEN Nigeria dispatched a jet from its Presidential Air Fleet late last month to fetch Malawi’s President, Joyce Banda, to Abuja, it unwittingly drew attention to our government’s fiscal recklessness. It was lost on President Goodluck Jonathan that while Banda had sold her cash-strapped country’s only presidential jet to save costs, he has, in three […]

Jigawa governor’s son convicted of money laundering

Aminu Sule Lamido, the 34-year-old son of the Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for offences bordering on money laundering, was on Friday convicted by Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court, Kano and ordered to forfeit 25 per cent of the undeclared […]

Heathrow reopens after Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Dreamliner 787 fire

Flights have resumed at London’s Heathrow Airport after a fire on a parked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet. All runways were closed for nearly 90 minutes after the fire at 16:30 BST. No passengers were aboard the plane at the time, a Heathrow spokesman said. Fifty Dreamliners worldwide were grounded in January after malfunctions […]

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